Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Equality "I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working, as they will a kingdom of God and love." — W. E. B. DuBois
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On SexSexSex
"Ann Coulter: That seems like a lot of words to explain that she's [Hillary Clinton] in it for the power. And it's interesting—
Geraldo Rivera: For the power?
Coulter: Yeah. I mean, why do prostitutes turn tricks? Of course, she's in it for the power.
Rivera: Are you comparing the first lady of the United States to a prostitute?
Coulter: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean—
Rivera: You are?
Coulter: There's always been some women who will take the easy path to glory. But what I think is interesting about it is a lot of the president's bimbos, as his campaign called them, appeared to have actually loved him. That is to say Monica, Dolly Kyle Browning, Gennifer Flowers. Hillary's the only woman in his life who's in it for the power." — Ann Coulter. "Rivera Live," 8-2-99. "The Wisdom of Ann Coulter," Washington Monthly, 10-01.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "He [President Bush] didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech" — Richard Darman, Office of Management and Budget director
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NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
A Milky Way Band
Credit & Copyright: John P. Gleason, Celestial Images
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EVENTS
● 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
● 1542 - First book is published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible. Rejected by several publishers. Great opening; ending is kinda weak.
● 1630 - John Billington is the first criminal to be executed in the U.S. Hanged for murder in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
● 1744 - France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
● 1765 - Mexican Independence fighter Jose Maria Morelos born, Valladolid.
● 1781 - American War of Independence: The French defeat the British at the Battle of Chesapeake Capes.
● 1791 - The Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots.
● 1813 - Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
● 1838 - Mushalatubbee, Choctaw chief, dies of smallpox.
● 1860 - Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
● 1864 - In a series of battles around Chaffin's Farm near Richmond, Virginia, black troops capture Confederate entrenchments at New Market Heights, make a gallant but unsuccessful assault on Fort Gilmer, and help repulse counterattacks on Fort Harrison. These battles garner Congressional Medals of Honor for 13 black soldiers. During the Civil War, 185,000 blacks serve in the Union Army, fighting in 449 battles. One out of every four Union sailors is black. Almost 38,000 black soldiers die. {Further proof of the falsity of the claim that the war was about states' rights.}
● 1882 - The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
● 1885 - Knights of Labor win on Wabash Railroad.
● 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
● 1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
● 1901 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.
● 1903 - New Gresham's School officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
● 1906 - Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.
● 1931 - Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
● 1935 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
● 1938 - The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
● 1939 - Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of war.
● 1939 - General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
● 1947 - The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joins the United Nations.
● 1949 - Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights.
● 1954 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
● 1962 - Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
● 1962 - After deployment of 12,000 federal troops to quell segregationist violence, troops escort James Meredith as he—on his fourth try—becomes the first African-American student to register at that bastion of enlightenment, the University of Mississippi.
● 1965 - General Suharto rises to power after an alleged coup by the Communist Party of Indonesia. In response, Suharto massacres over a million Indonesian communists.
● 1966 - The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
● 1970 - Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography report concludes all sexually explicit films, books, and magazines aimed at adults should be legalized. A publisher adds 500 photos to the report and sells it for twice the Government Printing Office's price. The publisher is arrested for "pandering to prurience," fined $87,000 and sentenced to four years in prison. {"We don't care what any damned commission says we know smut when we see it."}
● 1970 - Fourteen hundred draft cards burned by protestors in Puerto Rico.
● 1970 - Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
● 1972 - "Operation Readiness" report on the Air Force's C-5A transport plane reveals numerous defects, including malfunctioning landing gear and engines that fell off wings.
● 1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
● 1976 - Congress passes Hyde amendment, which prevents Medicaid reimbursements for abortions.
● 1977 - Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down. {This type of penny wise, dollar foolish way of thinking at NASA will lead to the deaths of many astronauts in later Shuttle "accidents."}
● 1979 - The Hong Kong MTR commenced service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
● 1980 - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation. {Xerox makes the technology available without charge. Key step to a viable Internet.}
● 1982 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol murders.
● 1982 - Cheers aired their first episode.
● 1985 - U.S. federal government shuts down (thru Oct 3). However, no one notices--much less cares. Crime rate dropped, no wars waged, no graft, wind speed drops, several forests temporarily spared.
● 1986 - Mordechai Vanunu kidnapped by Israeli secret police in Rome. Vanunu, who leaked details of Israel's secret nuclear weapons program to the London Times, was convicted in a secret Israeli military court and held in solitary confinement in Israeli prisons for the next 10 years. {Serves as model for the Bush war crime cabal's rendition program.}
● 1989 - Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.
● 1990 - The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
● 1991 - CIA finances military coup in Haiti, overthrowing the democratically elected government of Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Three years of state-sponsored murder, rape and theft follow.
● 1993 - An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
● 1998 - Death penalty for treason and piracy abolished, Britain. {Meanwhile in the enlightened United States more crimes are added to death penalty.}
● 1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
● 2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
● 2004 - The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retired.
● 2005 - The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
● 2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
● 2006 - the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Constitutional Act that proclaimed the new Constitution of Serbia.
BIRTHS
● 1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
● 1227 - Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
● 1530 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)
● 1550 - Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631)
● 1631 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701)
● 1700 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (d. 1773)
● 1710 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771)
● 1715 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780)
● 1732 - Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804)
● 1765 - José María Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815)
● 1800 - Decimus Burton, British architect (d. 1881)
● 1827 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918)
● 1861 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company) (d. 1932)
● 1870 - Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
● 1870 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father of Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (d. 1948)
● 1882 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)
● 1893 - Lansdale Sasscer, American politician (d. 1964)
● 1895 - Lewis Milestone, Russian-born film director (d. 1980)
● 1898 - Renée Adorée, French actress (d. 1933)
● 1898 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
● 1904 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971)
● 1905 - Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
● 1908 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974)
● 1912 - Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985)
● 1913 - Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (d. 1975)
● 1915 - Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)
● 1917 - Park Chunghee, President of South Korea (d. 1979)
● 1917 - Buddy Rich, American drummer (d. 1987)
● 1918 - Lewis Nixon, WWII Veteran (d. 1996)
● 1919 - Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (d. 1992)
● 1920 - Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American musician and cellist
● 1921 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress
● 1922 - Alan Stretton, Australian general
● 1924 - Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
● 1926 - Robin Roberts, American baseball player
● 1927 - W. S. Merwin, American poet
● 1928 - Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, author, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
● 1931 - Angie Dickinson, American actress
● 1932 - Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo)
● 1932 - Johnny Podres, American baseball player
● 1933 - Cissy Houston, American gospel/r&b singer
● 1934 - Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer
● 1934 - Anna Kashfi, Welch actress
● 1935 - Johnny Mathis, American singer
● 1935 - Z.Z. Hill, American blues singer (d. 1984)
● 1937 - Valentin Silvestrov, Ukrainian composer
● 1939 - Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1942 - Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1968)
● 1943 - Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1943 - Marilyn McCoo, American singer (The Fifth Dimension)
● 1944 - Diane Dufresne, French Canadian singer
● 1945 - Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha, 42nd Present Sufi Master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi order
● 1945 - Ehud Olmert, twelfth Prime Minister of Israel
● 1945 - Bob Lassiter, American radio personality
● 1946 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993)
● 1947 - Marc Bolan, British musician (d. 1977)
● 1947 - Dave Arneson, American game designer
● 1950 - Renato Zero, Italian musician
● 1951 - Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
● 1952 - Jack Wild, British actor (d. 2006)
● 1953 - S.M. Stirling, Canadian-born author
● 1954 - Basia Trzetrzelewska, Polish-born singer and songwriter
● 1954 - Barry Williams, American actor
● 1954 - Patrice Rushen, American musician
● 1957 - Fran Drescher, American actress
● 1958 - Marty Stuart, Country Music Singer
● 1960 - Blanche Lincoln, American politician
● 1961 - Eric Stoltz, American actor
● 1961 - Crystal Bernard, American actress
● 1961 - Eric van de Poele, Belgian racing driver
● 1961 - Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress
● 1962 - Frank Rijkaard, Dutch football player and manager
● 1964 - Trey Anastasio, American musician (Phish)
● 1964 - Monica Bellucci, Italian actress
● 1964 - Robby Takac, American singer and bassist (Goo Goo Dolls)
● 1965 - Kathleen Madigan, American comedian
● 1966 - Kerry G. Johnson, African American graphic designer and caricaturist
● 1969 - Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1991)
● 1970 - Mark Smith, English body builder, former Gladiators player
● 1971 - Jenna Elfman, American actress
● 1972 - Ari Behn, Norwegian author
● 1972 - Jamal Anderson, American football player
● 1975 - Marion Cotillard, French actress
● 1975 - Carlos Guillén, American baseball player
● 1977 - Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer
● 1977 - Maia Brewton, American actress
● 1977 - Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer
● 1978 - Candice Michelle, American female wrestler
● 1979 - Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer
● 1980 - Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
● 1981 - Brandon Watson, American baseball player
● 1982 - Lacey Chabert, American actress
● 1982 - Kieran Culkin, American actor
● 1982 - Michelle Marsh, British model
● 1982 - Ryan Stout, American comedian
● 1982 - Teal Redmann, American actress
● 1982 - Tory Lane, American nude model, exotic dancer, and pornographic actress
● 1983 - Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast
● 1984 - Megan Ewing, American model
DEATHS
● 420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
● 653 - Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury
● 1101 - Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan
● 1246 - Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)
● 1440 - Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician
● 1487 - John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
● 1551 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)
● 1560 - Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
● 1572 - St. Francis Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510)
● 1581 - Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
● 1626 - Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (b. 1559)
● 1628 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (b. 1554)
● 1770 - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
● 1770 - George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)
● 1772 - James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)
● 1865 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800)
● 1888 - Elizabeth Stride, widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
● 1888 - Catherine Eddowes, widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842)
● 1891 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
● 1897 - St Therese of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873)
● 1910 - Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)
● 1913 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b. 1858)
● 1943 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
● 1955 - James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931)
● 1961 - Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Québec (b. 1888)
● 1973 - Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)
● 1974 - Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor
● 1977 - Mary Ford, American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) (b. 1924)
● 1978 - Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)
● 1985 - Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
● 1985 - Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)
● 1989 - Virgil Thompson, American composer (b. 1896)
● 1990 - Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
● 1990 - Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)
● 1994 - Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
● 1998 - Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (b. 1953)
● 2002 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913)
● 2003 - Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935)
● 2004 - Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1936)
● 2004 - Michael Relph, British film producer and director (b. 1915)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Jerome
● French Republican Calendar - Panais (Parsnip) Day, ninth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
● Botswana - Independence Day (1966)
● São Tomé and Príncipe - Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day
● International Translation Day, introduced in 1991 by International Federation of Translators
THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING FIVE SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.
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Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.
Liberal Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004
Quotes from the Right of the Day taken from Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 Compiled by Bruce J. Miller with Diana Maio ©2004
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004
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